Configure and buy
Colorsource software

Turn
your i1Pro or i1Pro2 into the best pressroom
spectrophotometer. Email us your wish list for a formal price quotation:

Solve
ALL your print color quality problems (CMYK, N-Colors and print
works with PANTONE spot colors), for a MUCH lower price than buying a simple plate reader or
a simple CMYK densitometer: Stop wasting time and consumable and
get the quality and productivity you need today!

Just
email us the software configuration you want or the print applications you
envisage and we will send you
a formal price quotation :

Compare
our i1Pro based press room solutions costs with the alternative solutions based on obsolete*
equipments:

Following worked examples for typical offset printing are showing that, while being far more flexible, productive and opened, our software solutions allow you saving A LOT of money, by properly using modern
spectrophotometers spectral measurements:

Actions
required
for printed color quality:

Proprietary
solutions:

Costs of proprietary solutions:

Colorsource
solutions:

Controlling
color proofs BEFORE prepress and imposition,

Eye-One
Pro 1 or 2 basic
or EFI ES-1000 or 2000, or pressroom spectrophotometer with scan
measurement mode
+
appropriate third party software.

0to 7 000 €
+ Third party software.(You often already own the
required hardware!)

Controlling
the color quality of each printing configuration or printed model
inks set, in terms of
metamerism and optimal density or concentration, BEFORE you install
the inks on your
press,

Pressroom
spectrophotometer with spot colors and tolerances preprogrammed,
and with a working function allowing you computing your optimal inks
densities or pigment concentrations and control of metamerism.

Pressroom
spectrophotometer with all ISO12647-2-3-4-6 solid and
trapping colors and spot colors and tolerances preprogrammed,
and with a working function allowing you computing your optimal
solid CMYK
and else inks print densities or pigment concentrations.

Pressroom
spectrophotometer with all ISO12647-2-3-4-6 solid and
trapping colors and tolerances preprogrammed, and with scan measurement function,
and with a working function allowing you checking your optimal
average CMYK
print densities
+
appropriate third party software.

>
6 000 € +
Third
party software needed.

Eye-One
Pro 1 or 2
or EFI ES-1000 or 2000
+
CMYK_Gravure
application.

Off-Press
computing of your spot colors gravure curves,

Pressroom
spectrophotometer with
spot colors and tolerances preprogrammed, and with scan measurement function,
and with a working function allowing you checking your optimal
average spot colors print densities
+
appropriate third party software.

(*)
Please note we consider pressroom spectrophotometers are obsolete
equipments, but we DO NOT consider plate readers are obsolete equipments.
The only question is to know whether a plate reader is REALLY a priority for
you, when plate calibration results will vary of max. 0.5% when using a
spectrophotometer with Colorsource PLATE application! Please refer
to our technical note in ourfrequently
asked questions. Moreover PLATE does work for measuring low optical
contrast offset plates, when plate readers do not work.

For establishing this price
comparison study, we only retained decent pressroom spectro-photometers
models, offering the minimal functions listed above that all Print Houses do
need.

Of course, we did not
even consider pressroom CMYK densitometers, because they cannot measure colors
while all modern ISO print
standards or building your own standards requires matching specific colors. Moreover, densitometers can
be of no use with spot colors and special process inks.